Working with everything from jackhammers to jacaranda, Corpsmembers improve public spaces, build playgrounds, and landscape parks and gardens. Their work brings new vitality to neighborhoods, transforming neglected public spaces into valuable community resources.
Corpsmembers work closely with their supervisors, learning to use hand and power tools, plant trees and native plants, and build complex, beautiful playground structures. All while learning to complete projects on-time and within budget.
For 25 years, Corpsmembers have acted as an environmental workforce, greening the city from Hunter’s Point to Crissy Field. We’re now expanding this work with a new green collar job training program to facilitate Corpsmember access to jobs in the emerging green economy. A generous grant from San Francisco’s Department on the Environment is making this work possible.
LaTanya, Corpsmember, and Kat, Associate Director of Academics, at the Willie Mays Boys & Girls Club grand opening, where Corpsmembers did the landscaping.
SPOTLIGHT
The Willie Mays Boys and Girls Club celebrated the opening of a new garden and extensive play area this summer, thanks to the hard work of Corpsmembers.
Corpsmembers took a barren open space and planted gardens, built benches, created pathways from recycled materials and constructed a playground.
Children in the community now have a safe, fun, beautiful place to play.
